The clubs policy is any motor built in 1950 or earlier can be referred to as being antique. Your ’47 TD falls into this category. Motors 30 years or older as of today’s date can be called classics, such as your ’65 9.5 horse Johnson. This also means that low hour ’86 Johnson kicker sitting in the basement is a ‘classic’.
Myself, I tend to think of classics as motors from the 50’s when the manufacturers started the horsepower wars and painted their motors every color under the sun and loaded them up with chrome bling. Vintage motors to me are postwar ones from the forties and fifties and I always think of prewar motors as being antiques.
From the club’s motor registration form….
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